I'll have to remind myself to only hit DQ on a weekday, too many kids there saturday, it was really packed, however on thurs and fri it was peacefully quiet, almost no wait for the Pirates ride.
I just went swimming a while ago, sure it was cold but the pool was heated, then it warmed up a bit and here I am wearing my black double knee Carharts (only in Alaska have I ever seen these) pants and my winter wool Canadian shirt plus I had my Redwing insulated boots on lying on the pool lounge chair sleeping and getting a facial tan, I bet I would have made front page news!
Talk about weight, I was 203 when I left Alaska but I'm 5'10" and my work has bulked me up a bit, I usually buy size 36 pants but thats to give room for the two layers of thermals I wear underneith. I bought some size 34 lighter weight pants but now after a week of swimming at least twice a day on a chicken/veggie diet I must be around 190 or less, and even they feel loose. I definately felt sluggish before and had a little bit of tummy but now I feel a lot slimmer. In Alaska its a major problem for anyone to keep slim, its the long seasonal winter, lack of exercise, lack of appropiate sunlight to stimulate the pituatary glands and such that an awful lot of people are terribly overweight. Plus because we all normally wear heavy winter clothing it hides it (sorta

) but mostly folks get big to build up insulation, sounds primeval doesn't it? its a fact....
Well I'm off to Wallyworld to get me a smaller swim suit, after seeing all the busted guts hanging out at Blizzard beach I didn't feel bad at all! Comparatively I looked pretty good, but my poor son, he has such a tummy on him, when we were climbing the steps up to the twisting turning tube thingie I have to keep waiting for him to catch up, one time I was waiting forever and up he comes with no tube, poor little guy talked a guy with his family to carry his tube up! I shoulda brough my camcorder...